I haven't seen any requests for assistance on this list, but neither have I seen any specific rules barring such questions. If there are, and I missed them, I apologize and retract the question.

I've been scouring Stack Overflow and similar sites. I'm developing an appliance administrative interface, and I have a function that needs to operate on any text, if present, in a form text field.

The text is present, and I see it in the DOM, but I can't for the life of me seem to get the function to recognize it. Most of the answers I've found online fall into the categories "can't be done" or "you need to monitor every key press".

I'm using the jquery, jquery-ui and jeditable libraries, nothing else although I'm open to others if they are applicable.

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